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institutions abused amid perversion of justice
Community Tolerance Reconciliation and Development (COTRAD)
March 16, 2011
COTRAD has skeptically viewed the upheavals on the political landscape
as retarding national progress. This has come in the wake of an
uneven political landscape where cabinet ministers and other senior
politicians are being arrested to exert pressure on the three legged
coalition government. This means the rewinding of the clock to the
pre-29 March era with the possibility of more arrest, torture and
intimidation on the doorsteps of the spear headers of regime change.
Recent developments
point Zanu PF as the chief culprit in perverting justice through
the continued manipulation of the attorney general's office with
the recent verdict on the speaker of parliament not warranted, as
well as the conviction of Tongai Matutu in the case against Chief
Serima deplorable, the surprise arrest of Crisis
in Zimbabwe Coalition director Macdonald Lewanika, Gwisai and
five others are still languishing in the dilapidated cells.
The abuse of
state institutions like the attorney general's office comes at a
time when Zimbabweans are in dire need of a progressive government
that promotes civil liberties and concentrates on peace building.
Since the inception of the unconstitutional and highly criticized
marriage of convince the government of national unity Zanu PF officials
have continued to abuse office with recent reports pointing at the
embezzlement of funds by Obert Mpofu in which some of the funds
are used to sponsor violence in places like Mbare.
COTRAD advocates
for the establishment of a Truth Telling Commission in order to
address the atrocities committed since the emergency of political
violence by the fifth brigade during the Gukurahundi era.
The highly partisan
application and enforcement of the law is an act which derails the
peace building process under the defunct ministry for national healing
led by John Nkomo. The continued persecution means the opening of
old wounds, retrogressive, unpalatable and mere hate politics. It
is deliberate sabotage and a ploy once again to destabilize and
frustrate the endeavors of progressive to bring stable change the
parochial system of administration. COTRAD castigates the continuous
suffocation of an enabling peaceful environment for national development
and national processes.
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